Letter to the Editor: April 1999

Why Bother to Convert?... A Prisoner Calls for Real Discipline in the Church... Common Ground, Episcopalian-Style... In the Silk (for Now)... Silly Ads, Senile Cause... Many Sacrifices... Gentle Rebukes Don't Cut It...

"Tolerating" Christianity Into Irrelevance

THE MYTH OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Kenneth R. Craycraft Jr.

The choice between liberalism and religious orthodoxy is not a choice between reason and dogma; it is a choice between competing dogmas.

Sweet Land of Liberty (Or of 'Intimate Relationships'?)

APPETITE AS A RIGHT

Francis Canavan

Federal and state courts are asked to spin rights from apparently endless spools of jurisprudential thread labeled “liberty” and “equality.”

"Grandpa! Grandpa!"

JUST A HUMAN WEED?

Joseph Collison

Harold Cybulski was to be taken off life support. When his two-year-old grandson ran in, Cybulski opened his eyes, sat up, and reached for the boy.

Why Is It O.K. to Insult a Pregnant Lady?

APPARENTLY, 'DIVERSITY' HAS ITS LIMITS

Kathleen Whitney Barr

Unsolicited conversations often turn into sermonettes, confrontations, or inquisitions if this is not the “blessed” first child.

Was Our Lord a Fundamentalist?

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD: SCRIPTURALLY UNENLIGHTENED?

David Watt

Jesus confidently cites the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and refers to Jonah’s three days and nights in the belly of the whale.

What's Your Score on the S.A.T. (Salvation Aptitude Test)?

IF A LITTLE LEARNING IS DANGEROUS, HOW DANGEROUS IS NONE?

Noel J. Augustyn

If this exam seems easy, you might want to try it out on your local Catholic-school eighth-grader or high-schooler.

A Glimpse of Catholic Culture

ON PILGRIMAGE

Thomas Storck

An attraction of the Catholic Church is her frankly populist atmosphere, her maternal ingathering of diverse nationalities, colors, and tongues.

Can Catholic Orthodoxy Transcend Political Ideology?

THE CASE OF IRAQ

Nicholas C. Lund-Molfese

Rather than mustering the courage to stand alone, Catholics find it easier to follow popular American political opinion.

Capitalism Is Squandering Its Inheritance

GUEST COLUMN

David C. Stolinsky

Free enterprise in its earlier stage was the unwitting and ungrateful beneficiary of generations of hardworking, God-fearing people.

Briefly: April 1999

Reviews of Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947... What Went Wrong With Vatican II: The Catholic Crisis Explained... How Far to Follow?: The Martyrs of Atlas... A Thread of History... Parochial and Plain Sermons...